This podcast is about the unexplained death of a young woman, Laura Van Y. I have reviewed

and I will report on the contents of official case files provided by the police department

that's investigating her possible homicide, including witness interviews and police reports.

You will hear me provide my own opinions about these materials in the hopes of shedding

new light on this cold case.

It's important to stress, no person has ever been charged or convicted of killing Laura,

and everybody identified in this podcast is innocent until proven otherwise.

Previously, on Bonaparte.

Putting together a chronology or timeline is just a basic exercise to understand a set

of facts.

It's one thing to read through a stack of documents.

Is another thing to try to organize the information in those documents?

The first thing I saw was Samson's naked bottom with a wet diaper about a foot away.

In the early evening hours, there was a party of the family that Laura had child in

common with.

And in Bonaparte in our county, four hours later, five hours later, she's dead.

Keep going.

Is this Henrietta right here?

Yes.

Oh, this might be it.

Yeah.

After Annie and I met up with John Zane, a retired sheriff's deputy who'd never stopped

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